CVE-2019-15235 — CentOS-WebPanel

CentOS-WebPanel.com (aka CWP) CentOS Web Panel 0.9.8.864 allows an attacker to get a victim's session file name from /home/[USERNAME]/tmp/session/sess_xxxxxx, and the victim's token value from /usr/local/cwpsrv/logs/access_log, then use them to gain access to the victim

01What is this vulnerability?

CentOS-WebPanel.com (aka CWP) CentOS Web Panel 0.9.8.864 allows an attacker to get a victim's session file name from /home/[USERNAME]/tmp/session/sess_xxxxxx, and the victim's token value from /usr/local/cwpsrv/logs/access_log, then use them to gain access to the victim's password (for the OS and phpMyAdmin) via an attacker account. This is different from CVE-2019-14782.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-12-17T15:20:18.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:42:03.760Z

09References

• centos-webpanel.com — https://centos-webpanel.com/changelog-cwp7
• packetstormsecurity.com — https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155676/Control-Web-Panel-0.9.8.864-phpMyAd…